Amsterdam on 27 April is orange. King’s Day empties the offices and fills the canals, and by mid-afternoon most of the city is on a boat, on a bicycle, or sitting on …

I will be honest about my first impression, because it was wrong and it took an hour to correct. From the square, the Royal Palace underwhelmed me. I had come to Amsterdam …

Here is what I knew about Jean-Michel Basquiat before I walked into that room: he went out with Madonna. That was it. That was the whole of it. A man with work …

The Royal Palace on Dam Square has one room that most visitors walk straight past. It sits on the ground floor, on the Dam side, and it is numbered 21 on the …

I walked into this exhibition knowing nothing. I could not have said what Johan Cruyff played, when, or for whom. I knew the name the way a person knows a name: something …

The building on the west side of Dam Square is called the Royal Palace, and it was not built for a king. It was built by a city that had grown rich …